Scientists believe they have discovered the real cause of death for Louis XIV, the King of France who died in 1715. Louis XIV, also known as the Sun King, died Sept. 1, just four days before his 77th ...
Scientists have reexamined a mummified fragment of Louis XIV’s heart and now say the Sun King may have died from a chronic fungal infection rather than the gangrene long believed to have killed him ...
Born at Brussels in 1634; died in 1690; aged 56. He was invited to Paris, and appointed painter to Louis XIV with a pension of two thousand livres, beside being paid for his work. He attended that ...